Fabric-turfing implement



(No Model) D. LEWIS.

FABRIC TURPING IMPLEMENT,

No. 388,422. Patented Aug. 28, 1888.

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DIO LEWIS, OF PRESCOTT, ARKANSAS.

FABR IC-TURFING IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,422, dated August 28, 1888.

Application filed June 1, 1888. Serial No. 275,704. (No model.) v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1. D10 LEWIS, a citizen of the United States, residingat Prescott, in the county of Nevada and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FabrieTurfing Implements; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appcrtains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to fabric-turfing implements; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a rear face View of my invention. Fig. 2 is a front face view of the same.

My invention is constructed so that the operator can regulate the depth of the tuft and the length of the stitch,-and is described as follows:

A represents the main bar or body of the machine; B, the head cross-bar; O, the foot; D, the needle-bar; E, the needle; F, the spring.

a is a threaded gage-nut turning on the threaded end of the needle-bar D to regulate the length or depth of the tufting, and is provided with a set-screw, a, to keep it from turning.

12 is an oblong opening in the cross-head bar B sufficiently large to allow the threaded part of the needle-bar to play up and down through the same without friction, and to allow lateral play of said needle-bar, the crosshead bar acting as astop for said gage-nut, while one end of said bar answers as a handhold and the other as an attachment for the spring F.

a is a projecting sleeve fixed securely to said bar A, through which the needlebar plays.

d is a bar rigidly attached to needle-bar by a bolt, d, and keeps said needle-bar in position, and is the lower stop, preventing said needle-bar from rising too high, the said bolt impinging the wide slot I in said bar A.

G is a sliding bar, and has rigidly secured to it or cast with it a sleeve, which fits against the upper terminus, d", of

the webbing, and the rear end terminates in teeth a, pointing slightly downward, to catch in the webbing to prevent the foot from slipping back as the needle is rising up to take- The said needle E is cylindrical and hollow, and is secured to the needle-bar by a thumb-screw, e, and is provided with an eye, 6, near its upper end to receive the thread H, which passes down through the needle and out at its lower end. Said needle has in its rear face a groove, 6, which extends up one-third the length of the needle, that the thread may lie closely in it while passing through the webbing. The spring F is attached, one end to the extreme end of the crosshead bar and the other to the said needle'bar near its lower end. Said spring throws the said needle-bar up and draws the needle from the webbing, and its angle operates to cause the sleeve 9 to drop against the side 2' of the slot I, and as the needle goes down said sleeve impinges against the inclined side i" and drives the foot forward one step for another stitch. When the gage-nut is turned up to the upper end of the threaded part of the needie-bar, the said machine gives its longest tufting, and when turned down to the lower end of the said threaded part of the needle-bar it gives its shortest tufting. hen the sleeve g is set on the neerllebar so as to reach the extreme lower end of the incline i on the downward stroke of the needle, the machine makes its longest stitch. The stitch may be made shorter and shorter by fixing said sleeve a little higher and higher on said needle-bar.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the plate A, pro vided with the fixed sleeve a, and slot I, having the incline 2", foot 0, provided with the slot 0, cross-head bar B, provided with the elongated perforation b, needle-bar D, provided with the needle E, gage-nut a, working another stitch.

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on the threaded part of said needle-bar, bolt In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein d, secured in said needle-bar, acting as the presence of two Witnesses. lower stop, bar G and sleeve 9, regulating the length of the stitch, spring F, its lower end DIO LEWIS. 5 attached to said needle-bar near its lower end and its upper end to the extreme end of said \Vitnesses: cross-head bar, substantially as shown and de- WV. R. WVHITE, Jr., scribed, and for the purposes set forth. JNo. A. AURLY. 

